Puffy white cyber-sites feed creativity Ah, spring—longer days, warmer temperatures. I strive to invest my BICHOK (butt-in-chair-hands-on-keyboard) time daily, but there are times my brain wants to get off the gerbil wheel of word quotas and plots and marketing, and put in some time just staring at the clouds. There are “clouds” of sorts on…
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Master Classes and Special NLA Story Clinic at Colorado Gold
Greetings from Conference HQ! We’re putting the final polish on the brochure and at-a-glance (AAG) schedule and will have that online very soon. But until then, feast your eyes on the Friday Master Class offerings we have for you this year! In addition to our fabulous master classes, we are very excited to offer a…
Rocky Mountain Writer #82
Margaret Mizushima & The Timber Creek K-9 Mystery Series It’s been about 17 months since we had Margaret Mizushima on the Rocky Mountain Writer podcast, way back on episode number 23. At the time, her debut novel Killing Trail was a few weeks from publication and the buzz was just building for the Timber Creek…
To Progress, Sometimes You Must Retreat
Two weeks ago, I had the opportunity to attend (and teach at) the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers’ 2017 Writing Retreat in Colorado Springs. The retreat took place at the lovely Franciscan Retreat Center, a beautiful, serene location surrounded by mountains and inhabited by lots of fuzzy deer. The attendees, fellow presenters Anita Mumm and Susie…
Welcome to the Golden Age of Audiobooks … by Richard Rieman
Audiobooks are the fastest growing medium in publishing. How far have audiobooks come? The first audiobooks were called “Talking Books” and were created in the 1930s for people with visual disabilities in America and Britain. This group included war-blinded soldiers and blind civilians who couldn’t read braille. It was illegal for sighted persons to listen…